It's an utter beast of a race. Incredible, stunning, amazing but absolutely brutal in it's difficulty. But even with putting myself out for months I still wouldn't change anything
Wow, sounds really spectacular, not just the scale of the thing and the route, but the effect it had on you. Really wishing you the best for the recovery period as you did enough to earn that fortune without a doubt!
GKD - as in the protagonist in this brilliant story I presume?
Chapeau indeed sir - I read the report with great interest having recently come back from a failed attempt at the Tahoe 200.
Although it's nowhere near as extreme as the TdG I found a non-stop 200-mile/100-hour race is a very, very different beast from a 100-miler, (Barkley excepted) - I wish there had been electric fences on the Tahoe Rim Trail
Brilliant write up GKD and commiserations on the injury. I hope you have a speedy recovery and get the chance to have another shot at this one in the near future (if you so wish...). This is one race that is on my VERY long term bucket list - don't think you've quite put me off, but it certainly sounds as though it demands bucket loads of respect!
I had a good chat with both Joe Grant and Nick Hollon at the closing ceremony after the race, Nick mentioned that a little birdie had told him that I had had a particularly weird hallucination and would I mind if he chatted to me on camera about it. So I did. Here's the link
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Great blog, this link works, so you can just click on it, feel for you GKD.
http://www.run247.com/articles/article-5503-who-needs-drugs-when-there-is-ultra-running%3F.html
TDG is a beast of a race.
I am not saying never, but it is not on my agenda next year, or the year after.
It's an utter beast of a race. Incredible, stunning, amazing but absolutely brutal in it's difficulty. But even with putting myself out for months I still wouldn't change anything
Wow!
Sounds like Valgrisenche to Cogne would be a good section to check out to get a (non-sleep-deprived) feel for its gnarliness.
Wow, sounds really spectacular, not just the scale of the thing and the route, but the effect it had on you. Really wishing you the best for the recovery period as you did enough to earn that fortune without a doubt!
GKD - as in the protagonist in this brilliant story I presume?
Chapeau indeed sir - I read the report with great interest having recently come back from a failed attempt at the Tahoe 200.
Although it's nowhere near as extreme as the TdG I found a non-stop 200-mile/100-hour race is a very, very different beast from a 100-miler, (Barkley excepted) - I wish there had been electric fences on the Tahoe Rim Trail
Rest-up and heal well
Brilliant write up GKD and commiserations on the injury. I hope you have a speedy recovery and get the chance to have another shot at this one in the near future (if you so wish...). This is one race that is on my VERY long term bucket list - don't think you've quite put me off, but it certainly sounds as though it demands bucket loads of respect!
I had a good chat with both Joe Grant and Nick Hollon at the closing ceremony after the race, Nick mentioned that a little birdie had told him that I had had a particularly weird hallucination and would I mind if he chatted to me on camera about it. So I did. Here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GvFOrMuaU&feature=youtu.be
I think I'm at about 7:56